The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10

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0:04 okay let me get us going over here on rumble so today we're only going to be doing 45 minutes with 15 minutes um discussion afterwards we have a function tonight a friend of ours daughter is running to be a state judge in florida and we're going to go to a function for her so

0:33 It'll be a short day. So I'm gonna go ahead and get started. SR, just let me know when Bridget gets here. Okay, so we're on chapter 27 and we're going to find another jet that has a very similar story to the two we've already discussed. This one, the author reminds everybody that we've got the,

1:05 Jetstream 2. We have the other one that was in Nicaragua. So he found an article. And in the article, there were European investigators quoted as saying the Gulfstream had beige leather seats and a Langley pedigree, according to a Rolling Stone article that was written in 2024.

1:35 Under the previous owner, the article goes on to say it had visited Guantanamo Bay and flew for the CIA rendition program. Under the CIA contractor, Richmore Aviation, which we talked about yesterday. So the author obtained information that indicated the two owners of the Mexico jet that crashed.

2:06 Clyde O'Connor and Greg Smith had been connected to yet another aircraft that was used by U.S. government agencies to include the DEA, FBI, and CIA in Latin America. That jet was a Hawker business class cruiser that had a tail number N230TS.

2:34 FAA records show that between February 9th in 2001 and June 16th, 2005. Okay, let me bring Bridget up here. That Clyde O'Connor bought and sold this Hawker jet five times. Bought and sold five times.

3:02 through a series of three companies in which he's listed as an officer or member of those companies. Now, this is how the CIA, we've seen this pattern before, basically they're laundering jets through shell companies. O'Connor appears to have essentially moved the Hawker Jets' ownership through a series of...

3:31 Those companies are the following. Shoe Con, S-H-E-W-C-O-N, LLC in Miami. EDAC, E-D-A-X, Investment Corp of Nassau, Bahamas. Core Investment of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The man at the center of this was...

4:03 The guy we've been talking about through the whole last part of this book, Vega. So Vega leased the Hawker jet used for his U.S. government-sanctioned narco-trafficking recruiting missions in Colombia in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was leased through Smith's Florida-based company called Arrow Group Jets. In 1999, Vega says he made an offer to purchase the Hawker jet.

4:36 that had been used for narco-trafficking from its Florida owner, a company called Lone Star Aviation. Smith, through Arrow Group Jets, served only a chartering service for that jet. He didn't hold title to it. However, about a month prior to his arrest, and while he was flying in the Hawker on missions for the U.S. government, Vega alleges the...

5:06 Jet was essentially stolen out from under him, despite having put a $250,000 deposit to purchase the jet. Documents filed with the FAA include both a lease purchase contract for the Hawker, allegedly signed by Vega, as well as a lease termination agreement, also signed by Vega. Vega insists he never signed either of those documents.

5:36 At the author's request, he had the handwriting analyzed. And there were several documents that had his signature that he said, in fact, that he had signed. So all of those documents were given. Vega says that there was an original document that he had a copy of that was a purchase document, not a lease.

6:11 purchase and not a termination agreement. One of the law enforcement people concluded that all of the signatures belonged to Vega, while the other guy said that there appeared to be enough differences in the two that Vega said that he didn't sign to leave it as an open question mark.

6:39 Vega claims that after he was released from jail in the summer of 2000, he attempted to catch up with the Hawker jet, hoping to clean up the loose ends. He contends, however, that an FBI agent contacted him and ordered him to stay away from it. Vega says he had little choice because he was on parole. Vega also contends he had no knowledge of what happened to that jet after that point.

7:11 was an active participant in moving the Hawker jet around these shell companies. Vega says, in that regard, this is too coincidental for all these same players to be involved in all of the same aircraft. Smith and his partner O'Connor purchased the Gulfstream jet, according to FAA records, with a bill of sale about a week before it went on its trip, that it crashed.

7:41 And then he goes through the same thing we went through yesterday about the seller was a Florida company called Donna Blue Aircraft. And that it was supposedly owned by two Brazilians. And it does say that one of the companies was called Atlantic Alcohol with an individual named Larry Peters as an owner of a Florida-based Skyway Aircraft Inc.

8:11 Why is that important? Atlantic Alcohol performs operations in Brazil, the British West Indies, and the Dominican Republic. They also have an address in St. Petersburg. That's crazy. That address where this Atlantic Alcohol is located is the exact same address for Larry Peters Skyway aircraft that we talked about yesterday.

8:44 That's not a coincidence. Peter's Skyway aircraft also sold a Beach 200 aircraft to a Venezuelan purchaser in 2004, about a month before it was apprehended in Nicaragua with a thousand kilos of cocaine on it. So the author discovered through searching through FAA records.

9:13 that a total of at least nine aircraft were registered to Skyway Aircraft Inc. just prior to being exported to Venezuela. That's weird. Information where the Hawker jet was during the four years that O'Connor, various companies owned it, was not available. In June of 2005, O'Connor's...

9:48 Company called Core Investments sold the Hawker to a company called Dotson International Parts, Inc. in Rantoul, Kansas. FAA records indicate that that's the case. Dotson had emerged from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December of 2004. It also lists another company called Dotson Aviation.

10:18 The president of both of these companies is Robert Dotson Jr., according to the bankruptcy. Dotson International also has a history of doing business with some very controversial players. Chapter 28, drug war in Casablanca. A twin propeller Cessna 402C aircraft was seized in Colombia, just across the border from Panama in December of 2008.

10:48 while it was in the process of transporting about 850 kilos of cocaine to another destination thought to be in Central America, with the final destination being the United States. The story was not reported at all in the United States. It appeared in several publications in Panama and, weirdly enough, the Dominican Republic, which we know to be a drug trafficking stopover point.

11:20 The Cessna had flown out of an airport in Panama to pick up the payload in Colombia. This incident would likely have gone down as simply an aborted drug run in the thousands of drug runs that come out of that area, except for one thing. The Cessna sported a U.S. tell number, the FAA registration history that connected it to a number of other cocaine planes that had apparent links to CIA.

11:51 Those covert operations appeared focused, at least in part, on Venezuela, then governed by Hugo Chavez. And again, this particular time frame is 2008. A report by the Congressional Research Service titled Venezuela Background in U.S. Relations has a quote.

12:27 Tensions in bilateral relations with Venezuela under the George Bush administration turned especially sour in the aftermath of President Chavez, the coup that the CIA did on Chavez in 2002. Venezuela alleged U.S. involvement in the ouster while U.S. officials repeatedly rejected charges that the U.S. was involved.

12:53 Nevertheless, strong U.S. statements critical of Chavez upon his return to power set the stages for continued deterioration in U.S.-Venezuela relations and strong rhetoric on both sides. And we do know for a fact that the CIA was involved in that whole operation. USAID was down there. That's where Acuna Matata came into play, that Sunatri, whatever her nonprofit was, they were all involved in it.

13:23 The author talked at length with several Venezuelan nationalists during the period while on reporting on different operations going on in Mexico. The nation's time period under President Hugo Chavez was seen inside the country as a grassroots revolution against the narco state that it had turned into under.

13:54 the CIA and their black site prisons. We've been through that whole narrative. So, but as Venezuela was increasingly isolated by the Bush administration, and don't forget, Jeb Bush got his banking start in Venezuela, money laundering, drug proceeds. It turned inward and the nationalism was noticeable.

14:29 That opened a door to massive corruption in dealings with underworld characters, which only accelerated after Chavez's death in 2013. To trace the trail of the cocaine Cessna, it was necessary to keep a couple of numbers in mind. The first was the tail number N811PW, which is displayed on the exterior of the aircraft.

15:02 The second figure is the aircraft's unique serial number, which is referenced specifically in the story published in the Dominican Republic. With those in mind, the author requested the FAA to get a full registration history of the cocaine Cessna 402C and discovered that just prior to the date the Cessna was seized in Colombia, which was December 13, 2008,

15:32 According to the Panama News article, the Cessna was owned by a Floridian named Roberto Gomez, who changed addresses in the state three times in three years that he owned the aircraft. Gomez declined to talk about the Cessna. Gomez claims that he is a simple airplane broker and added that the area of Venezuela is very hot. He also declined to discuss whether the feds had talked to him.

16:02 about his Cessna. Gomez purchased the Cessna in June of 2005 from where? Oh, Dodson International Parts in Rantoul, Kansas. That's where the FCC shows that transaction. On December 12, 2008, the day before the Cessna was seized in the cocaine mission, the FAA confirmed

16:35 It's deregistration due to the fact that it had been sold to buyers in Venezuela. That curious coincidence is compounded by the fact that a similar pattern is played out by a number of cocaine planes. Huh, you mean a pattern? In April of 2006, a DC-9 jet owned by a Florida company called Royal Sons Inc. in Clearwater, Florida, was apprehended in Mexico with five and a half tons.

17:05 We talked about that a little bit ago. Only days after it had been sold to an unknown Venezuela purchaser. The passenger class jet with a tail number N900SA was acquired by Skyway Communications Holding Corporation, which is the parent company of Skyway Aircraft in Clearwater.

17:36 In November of 2004, that transaction happened, and then it was later sold to Royal Sons, whose president was a shareholder in Skyway Communications. James Kent is the CEO of Skyway Communications, according to the SEC. He served previously in a number of government contracts for communications and intelligence projects.

18:07 You mean like that communication project that was going on on the island? Huh, that's weird. A Gulfstream 2 Corporation jet crashed. Oh, he's just going over it. So he's going over the Gulfstream 2 that was crashed in 2007. And then he talks about the Skyway aircraft.

18:36 being in St. Petersburg. And all of those aircraft are associated with at least the CIA, if not the FBI, DEA, and CIA. He also says that there was another principal of Atlantic Alcohol that holds a government security clearance and who had worked as a consultant.

19:05 to NASA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There was an article about all of this in the Tampa Tribune on February 2008, talking about Larry Peters, who was a partner in Atlantic Alcohol. It says, Peters, who sold the Cessna, that's part of an FBI investigation, also is connected to the former owner of the Gulfstream aircraft that crashed in.

19:35 Mexico, through Atlanta Alcohol, a St. Pete-based company trying to export ethanol to Brazil. Peters is a business owner or business partner with Jueo Malego, who sold the Gulf Stream that crashed in Mexico. Both Peters and Malego deny any connection to drug smothers, because of course they do.

20:02 The intersection of cocaine planes, businesses, and government operations doesn't end there. The apprehension of the Cessna brings another company up. The Kansas-based Datsun International Parts, which sold the Cessna to Gomez, has also done business with one of the owners of another cocaine plane linked to CIA intelligence, Clyde O'Connor, one of the original Gulfstream guys.

20:35 he is also the previous owner of the Hawker that was moved around five different times. The co-owner of the Gulfstream II jet, Greg Smith, owned the Florida company Aero Group Jets that leased the Hawker to the CIA, Vega. Smith also served as a pilot on several of Vega's trips. Also recall that Hawker's business class

21:04 cruiser with that tail number N230TS, shows that it was bought and sold five times and involved Datsun International. Datsun Aviation also generated headlines in relation to another jet that it had sold to African purchasers, according to an article that was written in March of 2004 in the Kansas City Star.

21:32 A Rantoul, Kansas firm says it faxed to the American Embassy in South Africa on Wednesday sales documents for an airliner seized by Zimbabwe authorities, claiming it was ferrying around mercenaries. Nearly 40-year-old plane was seized by the president on Sunday. The government says that instead of carrying out

21:58 carrying just the crew members that it claimed on the manifest, which was seven, there was actually 64 people aboard with supplies that were military. The tail number from the plane suggested that it had been registered to the U.S. Dotson Aviation in Rantoul, Kansas. The company, however, said the federal registry is lagging behind. They had already sold that.

22:30 Right before that. Isn't that weird? They just keep selling these planes right before they're caught doing nefarious things. Company director Robert Dotson Sr., Jr.'s dad, said the sale was completed March 1st. Huh. Ten days later, it's caught carrying mercenaries around South Africa. He said that that happened after weeks of negotiation with Logo Logistics.

23:04 a firm that was associated with South African diamond mining. Reports in foreign press revealed that the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, was implicated in the plot, which was intended to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.

23:31 Mark Thatcher pleaded guilty in South Africa in 2005 to charges related with the attempted coup and received a four-year suspended sentence as part of the plea bargain. It's worth noting that online investigative publications had to say about Dotson's plane mishap.

23:52 If you've been reading the news the last few days, you may have noticed this odd and somewhat mysterious story of a U.S. registered cargo plane loaded with 64 mercenaries and the former prime minister's son and various military equipment that was impounded in an airport in Zimbabwe after its owners had made a false declaration of its cargo and crew.

24:22 When asked about it, the State Department spokesman, Richard Bakker, said, we have no indication this aircraft is connected to the U.S. government. Okay, yeah, that would be my first response too. Dotson International Parts President, Robert Dotson Jr., says his company is a legit aircraft salvage company. He says it buys planes and parts them out.

24:50 They've been doing it for about 100 years and maybe sells four or five planes a year. Dotson also says he doesn't recall any of the particular sales of the Cessna to Gomez, though he did not dispute the fact that Dotson International did own and eventually sell that aircraft. As far as the Hawker jet Dotson acquired from O'Connor, Dotson says that it had since been harvested for parts.

25:17 And just so that you guys know, this is a great way of, quote unquote, disposing of aircraft that are no longer accountable and can be used for covert operations. Dotson addressed the plane seized in Zimbabwe by saying that his company bought the Boeing 727 through a bid process from the U.S. government and then sold it to the South African company called Logo Logistics.

25:49 which said it planned to use the aircraft to transport security people to mining operations or to overthrow a government. After the plane was sold the logo, but before the FAA had updated the records, Dotson said it was seized in Zimbabwe. And the next thing we know, we find out that it was involved in an attempted coup. Back to Vega. He claims Dotson has a history of being involved in U.S. government operations.

26:20 Another interesting revelation is Dotson's confirmation that he operates a separate company in Arkansas called MENA Aerospace Inc. I'm sure that's a total coincidence. It's located at MENA Intermountain Municipal Airport where all kinds of shit happens all.

26:53 So why wouldn't the guy that has absolutely nothing to do with the CIA have a company at a known CIA location that is used, in the past at least, a lot for the CIA? That's crazy. That airport, of course, has a long history of working with the CIA.

27:21 He talks about some of the comments that was made in the past about even the local newspapers acknowledging the fact that there's credible evidence that the CIA was running drugs and arms out of MENA. Okay. So, of course, we go back to all of this being the...

27:51 smoke that allows plausible deniability of whether the CIA is involved in any of these nefarious things. But the author then goes in with the Tosh Plumlee who we've covered as well. He had been accused of everything from cashing bad checks to being a crackpot and accused of being a CIA disinformation.

28:22 you know, conspiracy theory guy when his information didn't jive with the official story. But public records at Congress indicates that his testimony largely corroborated was believed by Congress. They just didn't do anything about it. Plumlee was a former CIA contract pilot who claimed that he had delivered thousands of cocaine.

28:52 kilos of cocaine into the United States during the 1980s Iran-Contra. He is also the guy that contacted US Senator Gary Hart and blew the whistle on that entire covert operation. And in 1991, as a quote from that, just as a reminder, according to the record,

29:19 In March of 83, Plumlee contacted Hart's Denver Senate office and met with Mr. Bill Holan of his Senate staff. During the initial meeting, Mr. Plumlee raised certain allegations concerning U.S. foreign and military policy towards Nicaragua and the use of covert activities by U.S. intelligence agencies. I don't know why they don't like saying CIA.

29:47 He stated that he had grave concerns that certain intelligence information about illegal arms and narcotic shipments were not being appropriately acted upon by, again, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Mr. Plumlee stated the purpose in contacting Hart's office was to attempt to initiate a congressional investigation into the allegations. Mr. Plumlee raised several issues, including that covert U.S.

30:15 again, intelligence agencies, were directly involved in the smuggling and distribution of drugs to raise funds for covert military operations against the government of Nicaragua. He provided Hart's staff with detailed maps and names of alleged covert landing strips in Mexico, Costa Rica, Louisiana, Arizona, Florida, and California, where the aircraft cargo

30:42 was flown in for drugs, offloaded and reloaded with military equipment. Plumlee was eventually called to testify on a number of occasions behind closed doors, which of course is what you do in a republic. And then his testimony was subsequently classified. Because again, that's what you do in a republic.

31:12 Much of that we covered in Gary Webb's book, Dark Alliance. Understanding the risk of crossing the line with respects to violating his now classified truth telling, Plumlee still appeared on former Deep Cover DEA agent Mike Levin's radio show in 2003 and offered listeners the following warning concerning his claims of continued covert activities by

31:42 Again, U.S. intelligence agencies. It's the CIA. Quote, it's still ongoing. The reason I said that is that I hope your listeners remember that someone who has been very active in the drug war said that this stuff is still going on. Very secret, very hush-hush, very coded. There's too much money involved, unquote. U.S., now again, they have them in.

32:11 They classify his testimony. And now if he repeats anything that he said, it's quote unquote classified so that they can now arrest him for disclosing classified information. That's the trick to all of this. That's how they keep all of this information in a republic from the very people that need to know it. And Congress is in on it. And of course, that was the Kerry Commission.

32:39 who is the one that was responsible for number one, deciding it was going to be behind closed doors and number two, deciding it was going to be classified afterwards. So the methods and the sponsors of the covert actions remain in the shadows. It's an effective strategy. Vegas says countries like Venezuela or Cuba provide the perfect cover for U.S. government operations if the sponsors are seeking to conceal U.S. routes from targets.

33:14 If you go through those countries not deemed friendly to the U.S., then the corrupt politicians and traffickers you're dealing with are less likely to assume it's a U.S. operation. Attorney Mark Conrad, a former high-level U.S. customs agent who had extensive background in the intelligence world, offered the following insight during an interview with the author. Quote, even though it looks as if you're unraveling odd connections, you may.

33:43 be only seeing a small part of what's actually going on, or you may be seeing what you are expecting to see missing something else. My guess, and that's all it is, is that this has something to do with operations in Venezuela, either to finance operations or to divert attention from the CIA's ops to destabilize Chavez. It is not in the US interest for Chavez to create another Cuba.

34:12 on the largest oil field reserves in the world, unquote. So of course, they had already staged at least one coup attempt and were actively working on others. So very interesting. Then he goes on and talks about asking Vega about that premise and the use of these countries.

34:45 He agreed that the island of Curacao, which of course is a part of the Netherlands kingdom, was used for exactly that purpose. Not Venezuela, not Cuba, but Curacao. And weirdly enough, there were meetings from some of the corrupt people that were like the middlemen in the oil deals out of Venezuela.

35:14 the illicit funding ones that had several meetings in Curacao. It says that the economy there is basically tourism, money laundering. Interesting. The Netherlands condone money laundering on their territory. Oh, and narco trafficking. It is home to a Ford operation location, which is basically a base.

35:47 that is staffed with DEA, Coast Guard, and U.S. Customs, and the CIA. Carousel's role as a major staging area for intelligence operations is widely known in that area. I sure as heck didn't know it when I went on vacation there. That's very interesting. There was an article in the 2016 Air Force Times that quoted Lieutenant General Chris

36:20 Nowlin, Commander of 12th Air Force and Air Force Southern, J-I-A-T-F, South, which is a joint international task force that has all of the military services, Coast Guard, Customs and Border Patrol, DEA, blah, blah, blah. It says, just like we have the Five Eyes,

36:50 where we can share intelligence information with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK, we have information that we can share with partner nations as part of Southcom's mission, which is Latin America. Layering the intelligence so that you have a high probability every time you go after a drug trafficker of success. It's exactly the type of thing that we do.

37:15 The vast majority of drug smuggling, roughly 93% of it is done over the seas, he said. But the Air Force uses E3 Sentry AWACS aircraft assigned to carousel to do that. You know, the one that supposedly can't pick up any signals of all of the communication going. And just so that you guys know, one of my best friends is a AWACS back ender. And I talked to him about,

37:46 the capability, because he's been retired for a long time, they can hear everything. Just FYI. They're like a flying, eavesdropping machine. They hear everything. So that's crazy. Just a little bit more. Any theory, especially one that attempts to envelop a covert intelligence operation,

38:19 has to be assaulted with facts and stand the test of time. In the case of the Cessna seized in Colombia in 2008, it seems that test is met in part as there is a Curacao connection there as well. In the course of the author's digging, he discovered a social media site on the internet that featured photographs of that Cessna and its crew, you guessed it, in Curacao.

38:50 The photograph was taken November 22nd, 2008, according to a website about 21 days prior to that same aircraft being taken by Colombian sources. The photo is important because it does place a U.S. registered Cessna in carousel prior to the seizure on drug running charges in Colombia. A fact that along with other facts linking that plane to other U.S. government operations.

39:21 added weight to Plumlee's contention that the CIA and Pentagon had continued to run these drug operations. The mainstream media and the American public in general now accept the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies, specifically the CIA, are capable of doing these types of operations. One of his CIA buddies, that guy Osborne, says that

39:51 If he could tell the president of the U.S. anything, it would be to focus on the agency and do away with completely their covert action because it is basically defined as assassinations, terrorism, drug running, coups, and psyops. Quote, I'd like to get a president and help him to let him know what needs to be cut out. Now, our vote is for everything.

40:22 He goes on to say that the blowback against the U.S. doing these covert operations has been tremendous, which of course we know it. He also goes on to say that absent any change, they will continue. So that brings us up to chapter 29, which is where we will start tomorrow. I probably need to go visit Clearwater St. Pete Airport. That's crazy crap.

40:57 going on over there. Who knew? Probably the same shit that goes on at every airport in Florida. But, anyway. Anybody got anything? Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending here on Spaces and on Rumble. I'm listening to some of this stuff that's going on and trying to dig into all of these planes. And every one of them turns out to be basically

41:33 Some third company or some other company that winds up, as you said, either selling them for parts or selling the planes outright. There are CIA connections, but the connection is so nefarious in the way that it goes from one place to the next to the next that people look at that and say, well, there's not enough there. It's third party.

42:01 And I can only imagine how many planes are out there now. Yeah. But what you can do, it takes a lot of time. Like when I was researching Robert Sensei, there's patterns. When you look at these fake companies, you can go to their registered agent. And this is something that most people don't do.

42:29 They'll have the officers of the company, but the registered agent is a different function. It's the one that is on a piece of paper, the kind of the legal administrator. And the CIA really likes using companies for registered agents. Now, most people don't. If you're a legitimate LLC or whatever, you don't.

42:56 necessarily have a lawyer if you're just a normal small business. Your registered agent is one of your officers in your company, but there's in many of those, like the next step up, they'll have an attorney, but the CIA doesn't use attorneys either. They use these like cutout companies that do nothing but registered agent work.

43:25 And they're very notable because they're generally located with the address that they use is like a UPS mailbox or one of those temporary office fronts. And so you'll find them in like strip malls. If you go to the strip mall, there's no one there. There's never any cars there. So there's a high probability that that is one of those fronts.

43:52 And then you go find that company's registered agent. And that's how I found the link to Houston. And then I looked at all the other companies at the same location as the registered agent of the registered agent and circled right back around to Sensei's wife. And it just takes a lot of time to do it. And you have to know what you're looking for.

44:19 It is very interesting. All along, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel. With this kind of island near Venezuela, in some ways it reminds me of what would seem to be perhaps an emphasis on Caribbean cutouts in financial institutions.

44:52 In the late 60s and the early 70s that, you know, possibly involving similarities with, you know, the Robert Vesco organization. Just like that. Yeah. And it's just like, you know, I don't want to like just go ahead and use a regional or geographical, you know, scope or means of defining on this. But it just seems like, you know, because most of these.

45:20 are connected to, like, European gladio, right, you know, corporate fight. I wouldn't say right wing, but I would say corporate. Yes. You know, cartel syndicate finance mechanism. Yes. And so there seems to be this period in between, like, say, 1966 and 1980, in which there seems to be, you know, an uptick in this kind of activity.

45:50 I wonder if I'm imagining it or if it's just like that more of the shenanigans are written about in this period because others, maybe other areas got more focused or maybe other areas became more difficult to talk about. Well, I think it may be because that particular time period you're talking about, a lot of the material has since been declassified.

46:17 that's the problem you you have like a ever evolving you know 30-year window of declassification that um sets up these patterns but go ahead yeah i mean good point i mean i just again i'm just kind of one you know wondering about some other you know if we see any patterns of continuity between you know what um like

46:46 what was called the bernie cornfield network i think by jim howens in in the book spooks if you recall and then that he used that as precursor to the you know robert vesco shenanigans which frankly i still am not very i'm not sure i get that at all but i just know it's very interesting and it seems it's in some way and in between stage in the evolution of like you know these

47:13 networks that that grow into bcci well wait yeah wait till we get to next wednesday's alpha show on permadex and talk about jamaica and the operation they set up there um oh yeah permadex is something i definitely yeah yeah it's it's fascinating and it's definitely and you something that needs to be explored and you see all the same names right right and have you and uh warhamster been going into

47:43 the book by the italian writer on on permadeath those two books by that italian guy well on permadeath i'm actually doing that without or whatever yeah i'm doing oh okay oh i'm sorry yeah but anyway i haven't read i i read the first one by that meta guy it's definitely interesting and and the second one i'm going to read too but anyway i'm sorry for chewing your fascinating show

48:07 Go ahead, Warhamster. And just keep in mind, guys, I've got to leave right at five o'clock. So go ahead, Warhamster. Howdy. Hi. What year was this chapter taking place? The events? The 2000. Well, it varies, but around 2008. Let's see. Hold on. Well, while you're looking. I know I heard that this was John Kerry's commission was looking into it, of course. No, no, no, no.

48:45 That was a statement that the author had pulled in from a long time ago. John Kerry's commission, as you know, was much earlier than that. And they were talking about Plumlee, the guy that testified there, having been a CIA pilot, about them running drugs and stuff. And the reason why he brought it up is because this current company in the 2000s

49:15 It was based in Rantoul, Kansas, but one of its subsidiary companies was at the MENA airport. And that's where he pulled in then the Plumlee testimony of having ran drugs out of MENA.

49:35 And this supposedly Kansas company, just weirdly enough, had a subsidiary because it's looking now like they were involved in several aircraft that were doing either mercenary or drug trafficking. And their name just kept coming up over and over again. So go ahead. Well, that still leaves open the irony I wanted to point out.

50:01 to have John Forbes Carey, Skull and Bones, who we've discussed when we talk about BCCI and Skull and Bones, having a committee overseeing, talking about illicit drug running and stuff like that, when the Forbes family made their fortune in smuggling, and they were the world's number two opium smuggler into China. So the hypocrisy just kind of flew off the phone to me. You have to love that, don't you? It is absolutely, I mean.

50:31 There's a reason these guys keep getting away with it because it's the fox guarding the hen house. Correct. That's all I got. Yeah. I'll try to get you up here, Renee. Go ahead, Renee. Hey there, everyone. Just wanted to share as a little reminder, which we learned a year or so ago, I can't remember, that when you mentioned Atlantic alcohol.

51:04 I put some posts in the Purple Pill. It's not liquor or alcohol. This guy was a biofuel transporter. And biofuel is usually from sugar cane or whatever that can create ethanol, which is used in making the cocaine paste. So I just want to share that little side note. Yes, that is true. And supposedly that was going to Brazil.

51:34 But interestingly enough, these aircraft keep showing up in Mexico and Colombia and Panama. Great addition. Thank you, Renee. All along. Go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, picking up on the point made by Warhamster regarding John Kerry. I mean, I think we can say two things that often the investigations he did was professional bad timing.

52:05 In other words, the Kerry, the final Kerry report did have a lot of good stuff in it, but it was like after there was any, like, it came out too late to be part of the bigger story that could have created momentum on an actual demand for further congressional investigation. It was almost like an afterthought. And I don't think the timing on that was an accident given, as Warhamster suggests, you know, Kerry's extreme Uber insider.

52:35 situation. And, you know, I think it also connects that, you know, it's very easy for us to forget just how amazing it was that the Democrats could lose the 2004 election to George W. Bush. I mean, that was a work of professional losers. And what I mean by that is, you know, I've been repeating it, but how they used

53:04 Howard Dean is an airbag and and put John Kerry in only to somehow manage to lose it to a guy at the height of the unpopularity of the war. You know, with two skull and bones guys who are intimate in protecting CIA secrecy. That was that. It's kind of like there are so many point of no returns where like the electoral politics fails to keep up with any.

53:32 you know, aspect of reality whatsoever. But that was another of them, 2004, when somehow John Kerry managed to lose to his fellow Skull and Bones men. Stunning. Yeah. Let me also point out that Jack Bloom, the guy that was the lead investigator, said multiple times that he was frustrated because they wouldn't let him actually investigate. And I will also remind you that this is where the crumb

54:02 of BCCI got dropped and Kerry specifically disallowed anything to happen as part of the exposure of BCCI during his investigation to be, and the whole apparatus above him over on the executive side at DOJ, to isolate it to a handful of people in Tampa, Florida.

54:30 It was the seventh largest bank in the world, 100% money laundering, narcotics and weapons. George Bush had an account there. Noriega had an account there. Saddam Hussein had an account there. Aidan Khashoggi used that bank almost exclusively. And none of that got revealed because they put, and that's Jack Bloom was just.

54:59 flabbergasted in many statements that he made about how they had limited that investigation. Warhamster, go ahead. Yeah, to all along's point, and I think Colonel Touchstone pretty much said the same thing I was going to say. You look at the Kerry report, it's not what it said, it's what it didn't say. And that is so often the case with these government reports. They're going to say enough to make it look like they did some due diligence and actually...

55:28 But it's what they don't say that we find out 20 years later. Yes. That's where the real truth lies. And to the point Colonel made, or I guess all of them made, the truth comes out so much later. And, you know, I don't know. We're going to be stuck with this as long as they can hide behind classified information. That's going to continue to happen. Well, it'll continue to happen as long as we have a CIA, which is why it has to be abolished. So. No argument here. All right, guys. I got to run.

55:59 Thank you all for being here. We'll be back tomorrow at four o'clock and we probably have another couple of days, but I'm gonna try to finish this up between tomorrow and Monday. But I just found so much of this stuff. I'd say probably about 50% of this stuff is new because he does a deep dive into several.

56:25 obviously related things and the underlying theme is consistent with the stuff, but it just adds a little bit more meat to the bone to stuff that we already know and how many different locations inside the United States is all involved in all of this. So anyway, we will be finished with it in probably the next two days.

56:55 meaning Friday and Monday. So you guys have a nice evening. Take care. And I'll see you tomorrow at noon with Warhamster. And then at four o'clock for our normally scheduled show. So take care, everybody.

Entities here

CIA18 United States12 Tosh Plumlee12 Venezuela12 Raul Vega11 Florida8 John Kerry7 Mexico7 Kerry Commission7 Clyde O'Connor6 Colombia6 Panama5 Rantoul, Kansas5 Atlantic Alcohol5 Hugo Chavez5 Dotson International Parts, Inc.5 Robert Dotson Jr.4 Nicaragua4 BCCI4 Skyway Aircraft Inc.4 Curacao4 Greg Smith4 Larry Peters4 U.S. Customs Service3 Rhodesia3 Brazil3 Mark Thatcher3 George H.W. Bush3 Dotson Aviation3 Jack Blum3 Roberto Gomez3 EDAC Investment Corp3 St. Petersburg3 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt3 Skull and Bones3 Dominican Republic3 South Africa3 Gary Hart3 Netherlands2 Cuba2

Claims made here

Richmore Aviation front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 1:35

“Under the previous owner, the article goes on to say it had visited Guantanamo Bay and flew for the CIA rendition program. Under the CIA contractor, Richmore Aviation, which we talked about yesterday.…”

Clyde O'Connor member_of Shoe Con LLC documented ▶ 3:02

“through a series of three companies in which he's listed as an officer or member of those companies. Now, this is how the CIA, we've seen this pattern before, basically they're laundering jets through…”

Clyde O'Connor member_of EDAC Investment Corp documented ▶ 3:02

Arrow Group Jets front_for Raul Vega host_asserted ▶ 4:03

“The guy we've been talking about through the whole last part of this book, Vega. So Vega leased the Hawker jet used for his U.S. government-sanctioned narco-trafficking recruiting missions in Colombia…”

Raul Vega recruited CIA host_asserted ▶ 4:03

Greg Smith headed Arrow Group Jets host_asserted ▶ 4:36

“that had been used for narco-trafficking from its Florida owner, a company called Lone Star Aviation. Smith, through Arrow Group Jets, served only a chartering service for that jet. He didn't hold tit…”

Larry Peters member_of Atlantic Alcohol documented ▶ 7:41

“And then he goes through the same thing we went through yesterday about the seller was a Florida company called Donna Blue Aircraft. And that it was supposedly owned by two Brazilians. And it does say…”

Larry Peters headed Skyway Aircraft Inc. documented ▶ 7:41

Skyway Aircraft Inc. supplied_arms_to Venezuela documented ▶ 8:44

“That's not a coincidence. Peter's Skyway aircraft also sold a Beach 200 aircraft to a Venezuelan purchaser in 2004, about a month before it was apprehended in Nicaragua with a thousand kilos of cocain…”

Robert Dotson Jr. headed Dotson International Parts, Inc. documented ▶ 10:18

“The president of both of these companies is Robert Dotson Jr., according to the bankruptcy. Dotson International also has a history of doing business with some very controversial players. Chapter 28, …”

Dotson International Parts, Inc. front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 10:18

Robert Dotson Jr. headed Dotson Aviation documented ▶ 10:18

CIA attempted_coup_against Hugo Chavez host_asserted ▶ 12:27

“Tensions in bilateral relations with Venezuela under the George Bush administration turned especially sour in the aftermath of President Chavez, the coup that the CIA did on Chavez in 2002. Venezuela …”

USAID member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 12:53

“Nevertheless, strong U.S. statements critical of Chavez upon his return to power set the stages for continued deterioration in U.S.-Venezuela relations and strong rhetoric on both sides. And we do kno…”

Jeb Bush laundered_money_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 13:54

“the CIA and their black site prisons. We've been through that whole narrative. So, but as Venezuela was increasingly isolated by the Bush administration, and don't forget, Jeb Bush got his banking sta…”

Roberto Gomez member_of CIA speculative ▶ 15:32

“According to the Panama News article, the Cessna was owned by a Floridian named Roberto Gomez, who changed addresses in the state three times in three years that he owned the aircraft. Gomez declined …”

Royal Sons Inc. front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 16:35

“It's deregistration due to the fact that it had been sold to buyers in Venezuela. That curious coincidence is compounded by the fact that a similar pattern is played out by a number of cocaine planes.…”

James Kent member_of CIA documented ▶ 17:36

“In November of 2004, that transaction happened, and then it was later sold to Royal Sons, whose president was a shareholder in Skyway Communications. James Kent is the CEO of Skyway Communications, ac…”

Dotson Aviation supplied_arms_to Mark Thatcher documented ▶ 21:04

“cruiser with that tail number N230TS, shows that it was bought and sold five times and involved Datsun International. Datsun Aviation also generated headlines in relation to another jet that it had so…”

Logo Logistics front_for Mark Thatcher documented ▶ 22:30

“Right before that. Isn't that weird? They just keep selling these planes right before they're caught doing nefarious things. Company director Robert Dotson Sr., Jr.'s dad, said the sale was completed …”

Mark Thatcher attempted_coup_against Equatorial Guinea documented ▶ 23:04

“a firm that was associated with South African diamond mining. Reports in foreign press revealed that the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, was implicated in the plot, which…”

Richard Bakker member_of U.S. State Department documented ▶ 24:22

“When asked about it, the State Department spokesman, Richard Bakker, said, we have no indication this aircraft is connected to the U.S. government. Okay, yeah, that would be my first response too. Dot…”

Robert Dotson Jr. member_of MENA Aerospace Inc. documented ▶ 26:20

“Another interesting revelation is Dotson's confirmation that he operates a separate company in Arkansas called MENA Aerospace Inc. I'm sure that's a total coincidence. It's located at MENA Intermounta…”

Mena front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 26:53

“So why wouldn't the guy that has absolutely nothing to do with the CIA have a company at a known CIA location that is used, in the past at least, a lot for the CIA? That's crazy. That airport, of cour…”

Tosh Plumlee member_of CIA documented ▶ 28:22

“you know, conspiracy theory guy when his information didn't jive with the official story. But public records at Congress indicates that his testimony largely corroborated was believed by Congress. The…”

Tosh Plumlee trafficked CIA guest_asserted ▶ 28:52

“kilos of cocaine into the United States during the 1980s Iran-Contra. He is also the guy that contacted US Senator Gary Hart and blew the whistle on that entire covert operation. And in 1991, as a quo…”

Tosh Plumlee exposed Gary Hart documented ▶ 28:52

Bill Holan member_of Gary Hart documented ▶ 29:19

“In March of 83, Plumlee contacted Hart's Denver Senate office and met with Mr. Bill Holan of his Senate staff. During the initial meeting, Mr. Plumlee raised certain allegations concerning U.S. foreig…”

CIA trafficked Nicaragua guest_asserted ▶ 30:15

“again, intelligence agencies, were directly involved in the smuggling and distribution of drugs to raise funds for covert military operations against the government of Nicaragua. He provided Hart's st…”

Mark Conrad member_of CIA documented ▶ 33:14

“If you go through those countries not deemed friendly to the U.S., then the corrupt politicians and traffickers you're dealing with are less likely to assume it's a U.S. operation. Attorney Mark Conra…”

Mark Conrad member_of U.S. Customs Service documented ▶ 33:14

Chris Nowlin headed 12th Air Force documented ▶ 35:47

“that is staffed with DEA, Coast Guard, and U.S. Customs, and the CIA. Carousel's role as a major staging area for intelligence operations is widely known in that area. I sure as heck didn't know it wh…”

Curacao front_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 35:47

Joint International Task Force South member_of United States Coast Guard documented ▶ 36:20

“Nowlin, Commander of 12th Air Force and Air Force Southern, J-I-A-T-F, South, which is a joint international task force that has all of the military services, Coast Guard, Customs and Border Patrol, D…”

Chris Nowlin headed U.S. Southern Command documented ▶ 36:20

Joint International Task Force South member_of U.S. Customs Service documented ▶ 36:20

John Kerry member_of Skull and Bones host_asserted ▶ 50:01

“to have John Forbes Carey, Skull and Bones, who we've discussed when we talk about BCCI and Skull and Bones, having a committee overseeing, talking about illicit drug running and stuff like that, when…”

Jack Blum exposed Kerry Commission host_asserted ▶ 53:32

“you know, aspect of reality whatsoever. But that was another of them, 2004, when somehow John Kerry managed to lose to his fellow Skull and Bones men. Stunning. Yeah. Let me also point out that Jack B…”

John Kerry covered_up BCCI host_asserted ▶ 54:02

“of BCCI got dropped and Kerry specifically disallowed anything to happen as part of the exposure of BCCI during his investigation to be, and the whole apparatus above him over on the executive side at…”

Saddam Hussein laundered_money_for BCCI host_asserted ▶ 54:30

“It was the seventh largest bank in the world, 100% money laundering, narcotics and weapons. George Bush had an account there. Noriega had an account there. Saddam Hussein had an account there. Aidan K…”

Manuel Noriega laundered_money_for BCCI host_asserted ▶ 54:30

Adnan Khashoggi laundered_money_for BCCI host_asserted ▶ 54:30

George H.W. Bush laundered_money_for BCCI host_asserted ▶ 54:30